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Actors: Carey Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Monkey Business |
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Four bumbling fools, Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo stow away on a cruise ship. They run around like maniacs, causing trouble and annoying the passengers as the Captain and crew try to catch them.
Groucho and Zeppo run into Alky, a gangster and he recruits them to work for him as he goes after Big Joe Helton, a racketeer.
However, Chico and Harpo run into Helton and are recruited to be his bodyguards against Alky.
Back on dry land, Helton throws a party to introduce his daughter, Mary.
Both Helton and Alky think all four men work for him, but the men don't really work for either of them, they're just messing around.
However, when Mary, whom Zeppo has fallen in love with is kidnapped by Alky and his men, the four men track them to a barn.
The four men beat up Alky and his henchmen and rescue Mary.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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Carey Grant, as "Barnaby" the scientist, is working unsuccessfully to develop a youth potion. Then while the lab is empty, a chimp escapes its cage, pours together Barnaby's chemicals (magically making a successful youth potion) and drops them into the lab's water dispenser. Barnaby unknowingly drinks the water and miraculously behaves 20 years younger, to much comic effect. Marilyn Monroe plays a game but ditsy secretary to Barnaby's boss, and goes along with Barnaby on his first youthful escapade out on the town one afternoon. Ginger Rogers, playing Barnaby's wife, also mistakenly drinks the potion and adds much comic delight to this story of what it means to grow old, or at least, middle-aged.
--Harmony, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Monkey Business |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Kind of comedy
- adult acting like child
- adults acting eccentric
How much humor v. drama
- Nearly all humor
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- scientist
- unemployed
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- wild
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) very skinny
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (man) average build
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
How much in movie?
- 80%
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Water?
Yes
Water:
- pleasure/love boat
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
- full of laughter
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
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